Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-13
SHOT IN HIS DOOR.
yHE WORK or AN ASSASSIN IN NORTH
CAROLINA
4 Murderer Reprieved Because the shorif
Is Eot Ready General North state
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RALEIGH. \. c., December l2.-News
has been received here of the
shooting Of Christian Leak, q young
colored man, in Richn oDd county by an
unknown assassin. Leak was standing
in the doorway Of his house at night
when he was fired on by some person IN
ambush aud fell forward dead.
Governor Scales was at his Office to-day
for the first time since last Thursday
He has a very severe cold.
This afternoon the Govern0rreprleved
Charles L. Jones. the wifc-murderer OF
Craven county, until Tuesday, January
18th. This was done at the request OF
the commissioners OF Craven. The
sheriff of that county will not be ready
to assume the duties of his Office by next
Friday, which was the day fixed for the
execution. Application for Communication
OF Jones's sentence has also been re-
ceiyed by the Governor There Is no
prospect for favorable action upon it,
as the crime was very brutal and the
evidence very direct.
Inquiry at the Department Of Agri-
culture to-day elected the information
in regard 10 gold-mining in this State
that more mines are in operation now
than mt this time last year, and this is
tine case Notwithstanding the fact that
this year has been marked by schemes
and spcculations very discouraging to
legitimate mining. The output Of gold,
notwithstanding the increase in the num-
Der OF mines. is not as great ms the ac
tiyty would lead one to expect. There
are plans for big work in this line which
will soon he matured aud will yield large
results. During the year, it appears,
work has been done at about sixty mines.
At some it was Of preliminary charac-
ter. The gold district is increasing in
dimensions, and work is being done in
some new counties.
Eight more Degro convicts have es-
capped from the county stockade OF
Mecklenburg. It is little remarkable
that in the past thirty days nearly forty
men have escaped from stOckades and
iails and from convict gangs IN various
parts of the State.
Some OF the members Of the Republi-
can State Executive Committees arrived
here to-day. They are this early on the
ground 10 make arrangements for the
Joint meeting Of the two committees day
after tomorrow. They decline to say
anything save that harmony il secured
and that they intend to put in their
hardest work for the party next year 1t
is very clear that they have secured
funds, or are promised them, to aid in
the attempt to carry North Carolina.
The cotton receipts at Wilmington
this season are nearly 1875, 600 balos-a
gain Of 81, 0O0oYer last year. AT Raleigh
they are $4,000, and at Charlotte nearly
5000
William 4. Potts, the young man who
was on Saturday sentenced to be hanged
at Washington, Beaufort county, for the
murder of Paul Lincke. has appealed for
Il new trial.
The statement that Judge Clark, Of
the Superior Court will resign appears
to be strongly confirmed. The exact
time is not known.
The first train loaded with paving
stone for Norfolk under the new con-
tract left Granite last week The con-
tract is for $500 tons of Belgian block.
The iirstcontract was for ?, 800 tons, and
vas carefully and satisfactorily filed.
The shipments are of twenty-five cars at
a time.